What makes Rangers worse tanks than Shadow Knights or Paladins?

[sox7d]

Originally Posted by Frug [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mezzing something his pet was attacking is unforgiveable, but how would you suggest the chanter "call off" his pet?

yelling at the screen

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Clark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Damn glad I didn't roll a Ranger here. Made that mistake on live.

I didn't think that when we got AM3/EQ and elemental bows.

[Cecily]

One of my fondest moments on live is finally getting my Stonewood Compound Bow made. I was a happy rogue. Took alot of gambling and Qeynos Afternoon Tea selling to make money to gamble with to finally be able to afford the materials.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

One of my fondest moments on live is finally getting my Stonewood Compound Bow made. I was a happy rogue. Took alot of gambling and Qeynos Afternoon Tea selling to make money to gamble with to finally be able to afford the materials.

are you saying, you played those casino games people setup in like the EC tunnel? I have never tried that and always wondered who plays them haha

[Cecily]

Yeah. I'd play them, run them. Be up 30k and lose it all and more in the same day. It felt much quicker than selling the 500p a stack tea I was making with my GM brewing. Was certainly more exciting. All and all, if I had just simply saved my plat I could have probably knocked 2 months off the time it took to get that bow. But miss all that fun? It's what kept me going.

In retrospect, I should have made a ranger to see the bow in action. But the +10 atk was worth the 3 month time investment to me at the time.

[fadetree]

Am3 + EQ + Elemental bow was just sweet. Not overpowered, just finally what Rangers were supposed to be (imho) from the beginning. Not easy to get either, originally. I ground for months to get it.

[Alanus]

Paladins can be decent crowd control. On live during Kunark, I used to play "enchanter" quite a bit in Sebilis and KC. Root + stun aggro + paladin's damage mitigation and self heals made it work pretty well. Pre-velious (before celestial cleansing and experience penalty removal), paladins were very difficult to level up, though. Celestial cleansing was a godsend, though.

But to answer OPs question, it was a combination of better defense skills, more HP/AC, better armor for tanking.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

I made so many millions of plat selling bows to scrubs without elemental access, lol. The bow staves themselves, which you could get 20 a day, would go for upwards of 100k.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Alanus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Paladins can be decent crowd control. On live during Kunark, I used to play "enchanter" quite a bit in Sebilis and KC. Root + stun aggro + paladin's damage mitigation and self heals made it work pretty well. Pre-velious (before celestial cleansing and experience penalty removal), paladins were very difficult to level up, though. Celestial cleansing was a godsend, though.

But to answer OPs question, it was a combination of better defense skills, more HP/AC, better armor for tanking.

Properly geared, a ranger is a far better duo with a cleric than a paladin, though. If the ranger doesn't have a slower he ends up mitigating far more if he gets an earthcaller proc decently early into the fight. Combined with 41 haste and a DCOS and they actually make p goog clr partners :P

[Daldaen]

Ranger with Haste Cloak, Both Epics, and decent tank gear is a fantastic cleric/shaman duo partner. Any of the healers really, but with druid there is too much overlap.

I would farm the PoWater bows on EQMac for a decent profit. PoFire bows required raid drops (fiend guts), PoAir bows sucked cause PoAir alpha sucked (those spiders were god awful), PoEarth bow wasn't terrible but the vine generally required a raid and the bow staff was pretty rare.